AMA holds fire over the ACT government's new walk-in clinics
The doctors' group says it has been told they will not compete with local GPs
The ACT AMA is withholding criticism of new walk-in centres proposed by the territory government after receiving assurances they will not compete with GP services.
It has long campaigned against the territory’s chain of government-funded nurse-led clinics — which treat minor illnesses, injuries and infections — labelling them a waste of taxpayer money.
But president Dr Antonio Di Dio says the government is promising the five new clinics will be “radically different” from the others - and as yet it was not clear if they would be run by